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Frida Kahlo



Frida Kahlo



Mexican painter


Quotes

Quotes by Frida Kahlo

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good behavior.
I hope the leaving is joyful; and I hope never to return.
I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
They are so damn 'intellectual' and rotten that I can't stand them anymore....I [would] rather sit on the floor in the market of Toluca and sell tortillas, than have anything to do with those 'artistic' bitches of Paris.
(on Andre Breton and the European surrealists) letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-16-1939
People in general are scared to death of the war and all the exhibition have been a failure, because the rich - don't want to buy anything.
Letter to Nickolas Muray, 02-27-1939
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Letter to Nickolas Muray, 12-18-1939


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